Education

PanAm Post interview by Belén Marty — Spanish, Portuguese, and English versions

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In Buenos Aires, I was interviewed by journalist Belén Marty for the PanAm Post. The theme was populism, postmodernism, and politics, as captured in the title “Populism Succeeds Where Education Fails.” Here are the interview’s original Spanish and English versions, and the interview has now also been translated into Portuguese by Adriel Santana.

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Campus Sex and the Anti-Sexiness of the New Authoritarians [new The Good Life column]

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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Rape is among the most horrific of crimes. Sex should be a fun and beautiful thing – but rape takes that most personal of experiences and turns it into a degradation. “There is moderately good news about the number of rapes in the USA. According to the

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When Can Professors Have Sex with Their Students? [new “The Good Life” column]

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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Two sex scandals in philosophy departments have, well, scandalized the academic world recently. “One at the University of Miami in Florida led to the resignation of professor Colin McGinn. The other, at the University of Colorado, Boulder resulted in the removal of the department chair, Graeme Forbes.

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My essay “Educating for Entrepreneurship”

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[The English text is below was also translated into Polish and published in the education journal Przegląd Pedagogiczny.] Educating for Entrepreneurship Stephen R.C. HicksDepartment of Philosophy and Center for Ethics and EntrepreneurshipRockford UniversityRockford, Illinois, USA Introduction: Japanese visitors to American schools Recently a team of Japanese investigators come to the United States to study its

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Two upcoming talks at University of Casimir the Great

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I will be visiting the University of Casimir the Great in Bydgoszcz, Poland, to give two education-related talks: Thursday, May 15: Educating for Entrepreneurship. Friday, May 16: Doctoral Seminar on The Question of Education and Postmodern Thought. Many thanks to Professor Piotr Kostyło for the invitation to speak with his students and colleagues. Of course

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Real education — Woodward versus Brandeis and Azusa Pacific universities

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In the wake of a recent wave of controversial thinkers being disinvited* from universities, here is a classic quotation from Yale historian C. Vann Woodward on true education: “The purpose of the university is not to make its members feel secure, content, or good about themselves, but to provide a forum for the new, the

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